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1st Annual Touring Joara, Western NC details below
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Greetings.
As
a board member of the Exploring Joara Foundation and a European Car
enthusiast, I am writing to invite you to participate in the first
“Touring Joara,” a European-style automotive tour through western
North Carolina. We will be driving some of the region’s most scenic
and historic roads just at the peak of fall colors on Saturday, October
23rd, 2010.
“Touring
Joara” is a fundraising event to benefit the Exploring Joara
Foundation and its efforts to establish and support a regional public
archaeology program. In recent years, 16th-century artifacts
have been discovered at the Berry site and at Catawba Meadows Park in
Morganton, NC.
Artifacts
unearthed at the Berry site indicate that it is the location of the
Native American town of Joara and Fort San Juan, one of a series of
forts built by Spanish explorer Juan Pardo in 1567. The Berry site is
possibly the oldest European settlement in the interior United States
– predating Jamestown and the Lost Colony. The Catawba Meadows site
appears to be have a similar Native American structure and will be
excavated this summer.
“Touring
Joara” provides a fun and exciting opportunity for European and Sports
Car Clubs to enjoy the fall colors, great scenery and winding curves of
western NC while helping to unearth and preserve significant
archaeological sites.
Adding
to the “Touring Joara” fun will be a poker run with five stops to
collect your poker hand. At 2:30 till 4:00, drivers will gather at
Catawba Meadows to reveal their poker hand and receive a commemorative
“Touring Joara” touring badge for his or her vehicle. Awards donated
in part by ACE Hardware, Advance Auto Parts, AUTOZONE, LOWES, NAPA Auto
Parts, and O’Reilly Auto Parts, will be presented to the best 10
hands.
The
North Carolina chapter of the Ferrari Club of America has confirmed
their participation as a club and is including “Touring Joara” as
part of their 2010 fall event. I
hope BMW Car Club of
America will also participate as a
club.
The
cost is just $75 per car and a percentage of the registration fee is a
tax deductible donation to Exploring Joara Foundation, a 501(3)c
nonprofit. Founded in 2008, Exploring Joara Foundation seeks to advance
archaeological research in the Catawba and Yadkin river valleys.
I
have included a few photos of the route to give you a taste of the
adventure we have planned. Thank you for reviewing this information and
for any help you could give me to relay this information to your
members.
I
look forward to sharing this adventure with the BMW Car Club
of America
and other European and Sports Car enthusiasts.
Sincerely,
Scott
Coley
Morganton
NC
Please
visit us on the web at Exploringjoara.org
KART-NITE
at RUSH HOUR KARTING The
Triangle Area is once again holding it’s Kart-Nite event at Rush Hour
Karting.
For those of you new to this event, Rush Hour Karting has an indoor
track with karts that can attain speeds up to 25-30 mph.
All participants are briefed prior to racing, and helmets are
furnished for use by the facility. Come
join us for an evening of fun, challenging races on the track, and the
camaraderie of your fellow BMW owners.
Families are welcome, and kids under 16 will have their own events
on the track at lower speeds.
There’s
also a nice (and improved) restaurant on-site offering a variety of
salads, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. The
fun starts at 6PM on October 21.
We’ll have a brief member meeting, followed by races throughout
the evening.
Come join the fun!! Venue
location:
Garner, NC Incentive
pricing for BMW CCA:
$10 per
race For
questions, please contact: Denis
Kingberg, Area Coordinator Triangle/Sandhills
Areas – Tarheel BMW CCA dkingberg@nc.rr.com(919) 247-4876
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